Azerbaijani gymnasts win 18 medals at international tournament

Roughly 18 medals of various coinage, including seven gold, were won by Azerbaijani gymnasts at the traditional international tournament "Miss Valentine 2011" in Tartu, Estonia, the Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federationsaid.

The leader of the national team Alia Garayeva won gold three times while performing the exercises with a hoop, a ball, mace. She ranked third while performing the exercise with a ribbon.

Her teammate Anna Gurbanova ranked second twice with a hoop and a ribbon. Zeinab Javadli and SamiraMustafayeva ranked fifth with a ball and sixth witha hoop, respectively.

The two collective groupsof the countryalso preformed well. The main team includingAnastasia Prasolova, Jeyla Guliyeva, Jamila Huseynova ,Aelita Khalafova ,Sabina Abbasova and Stephanie Trayanova won silver with three ribbons / two hoops and bronze with five balls.

The other team, including Neftchi gymnasts Jala Garatova, Irada Ahadzade, MansuraMehdiyeva, Medina Hasanovaand Alia Pashayeva performed better in the second combination. They ranked second with 5 balls.

All the juniors,who participated in these competitions, returned with gold. Thus, 13-year-old Gulsum Shafizade left herrivals behind while performing the exercises with the ribbon. She ranked second with a hoop. Leman Dadashlireceived "bronze" withmace.

Her 12-year-old namesake Leman Hajizade also won bronze with mace and ball.

Thus, 11-year Rugiyye Sattarova performed with a rope best of all, 10-year-old Leili Ibrahimova ranked third in the exercise without an object. 7-year old Lala Kramarenko won her first gold medal.

Lala Yusifova,Aisha Mustafayeva,Mansura Bagiyeva, Aynur Jabbarli, Siyana Vasileva and Ekaterina Prokopenko ranked fourth due to mistakes while performing the exercise with five ropes, head coach Mariana Vassileva said.

"However, this is our first start this year. I am very happy with all the gymnasts. All of them showed their new programs. I am glad that they managed to make a good impression," she said.


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